- present participle of abandon.
abandoning
Example Sentences
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But the Fed wound up abandoning that approach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg has listed the sprawling Los Angeles ranch where he housed his horses for nearly $30 million—decades after abandoning controversial plans to transform the property with an enormous five-story riding facility.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
With “New Avatar,” she wanted to “dismantle and disrupt” that dissonance without abandoning her R&B roots, she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Their identities confirm that all three survived the expedition's first three years and were among the crew members who ultimately tried to escape the Arctic after abandoning the trapped ships.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
The senior Stokeses had long before left the Washington area, abandoning Agnes to a maternal grandmother, seventy-five-years-old, by the name of Gertrude Berkheimer.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
